Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Panama City
Persistent Pain In the Coccyx (left Side of the Bone) Posted: 08-11-06 00:32am
Hi,
i'm 31 years old and play racquetball once
a week.
About 6-8 months ago I started feeling
pain in my coccyx while sitting with my
weight mostly to my left side, or when
lying in bed on my left side. The pain
is not unbearable or disabling, but it is
pretty sharp.
I had no idea what it was until one day
(after about 1-2 months of the pain first
appearing) while playing I crashed the
left side of my body against the court's
wall (which is something I used to do very
frequently while playing) and immediately
felt the sharp pain again, very strongly.
I immediately started blaming my style of
play, or at least that particular move, to
my "injury". Of course i'm not 100%
convinced...Which is why i'm here.
Months later, the pain's not going away,
but i'm not doing anything to fix it
either. I'm not crashing into walls
anymore, but prolonged sitting and
sleeping on my left side trigger the
pain..Which subsides after a few
minutes.
Also, if I touch my coccyxs and put
preasure on the left side (that is,
touching the left side of the little
tailbone) I feel the sharp pain...It feels
pretty superficial! The right side is
completely painless.
I read online the rare possibility of
tumors and the like. Is there a way to
examine myself without having to go
through mri's and rectal exams, that would
suggest the cause of the pain one way or
another?
